livestock Articles
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Organic livestock: why you should embrace it
The term “organic” is widely used nowadays, usually to refer to products and practices related to a healthier and more conscious lifestyle. But what about organic livestock? Learn more about the practice, its benefits and why you should start embracing it as your main production system. What is organic livestock? Organic livestock is a practice that consists on producing healthy ...
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African countries must improve livestock data
Africa still suffers from a lack of good quality data on livestock that could be used to measure and improve progress as well as inform policymaking processes, scientists have said. Good data are crucial for identifying effective public and private sector investment opportunities, and in helpling to improve the livelihoods of smallholder livestock producers in Africa, according to 'Livestock ...
By SciDev.Net
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Disaster management plan agriculture
The municipality Amt Neuhaus spreads out on the right bank of river Elbe. The region is characterized by agriculture, especially grassland farming in conjunction with animal husbandry. The area is low-lying and has a potential flood risk. The floods in 2002, 2006 and 2011 endangered the stability of dykes and therefore the security of people, livestock and material assets. In 2002 the situation ...
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What is farm management software and why use it?
Farm management software, sometimes referred to as livestock management software is a software system for recording farm activities. What does farm management software need to be a useful tool? The ability to: Enter livestock details namely, species and breed, gender, identification details such as ear tag colour and number, progeny and ideally be able to display a photo of the animal. ...
By FarmRexx
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Digitanimal at the European Grassland Federation 2017
The DiSBA (Department of Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences) of the Italian National Research Council organized the ISPAAM (Institute for Animal Production in the Mediterranean Environment) on 8 and 10 May 2017 in Alghero (Sardinia, Italy) , The 19th Symposium of the EGF (European Grassland Federation) and Digitanimal was present with a great success of assistance and interest in our system ...
By Digitanimal
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Degradation of abamectin and doramectin in sheep faeces under different experimental conditions
Avermectins is the collective name given to a range of animal health products used in the prevention of parasitosis. Residues of these drugs retain their insecticidal properties after excretion in livestock faeces. We investigated the degradation of abamectin and doramectin in sheep faeces under the laboratory and field conditions. In the first two, out of three experiments, we exposed collective ...
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How to Keep Livestock Cool in Hot Weather
During the summer months when high temperatures and humidity combine, keeping your livestock cool and comfortable is an absolute necessity. How to keep animals cool in hot weather should be a priority. Otherwise, many can succumb to heat related stress, exhaustion, stroke—and unfortunately, death. Enclosed spaces without proper ventilation will result in serious problems for you, your ...
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4 Common Livestock Stressors (and Solutions!)
Stress occurs when animals are in situations that release their emergency signals for survival, which can be either physiological, behavioral, or physical elements – these situations are called stressors. Although stressed animals may be able to tolerate these for a short period, long-term or multiple stressors can be detrimental. Studies have shown that the effects of long-term ...
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Managing waste from confined animal feeding operations in the United States: the need for sanitary reform
Confined food-animal operations in the United States produce more than 40 times the amount of waste than human biosolids generated from US wastewater treatment plants. Unlike biosolids, which must meet regulatory standards for pathogen levels, vector attraction reduction and metal content, no treatment is required of waste from animal agriculture. This omission is of concern based on dramatic ...
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A strategy for sustainable livestock husbandry wastewater treatment in China
A strategy for sustainable treatment of the livestock husbandry wastewater is proposed, which is to recycle anaerobic treatment effluent as irrigation water. The existing treatment system was modified by deleting the treatment units after the anaerobic digestion. Chinese cabbage and Korean radish were selected as seeding plants in two sets of field irrigation experiments with various portions of ...
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How to store feed pellet
During the rainy season, the air humidity is relatively high. If the feed is not stored properly, it is easy to become moldy and deteriorate. Various nutrients in the moldy feed are destroyed, the nutritional quality of the feed decreases, and even its utilization value is completely lost. After livestock and poultry eat moldy and rotten feed, toxins will accumulate in the animal's body, causing ...
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Why It`s so important to know the Amino Acid Composition of Fodders?
The quality of food that is consumed by the population, in particular depends on the formulation of animal fodders that are consumed by livestock during it’s lifetime. For rapid and harmonious growth of cells body it has to synthesize sufficient amount of protein not only as a building material of muscles, bones, and internal organs, but also as a major constituent enzymes – catalysts ...
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An odor predictive model for rendering applications
Abstract The rendering process consists of crushing and heating animal remains to produce by-products. The U.S. produces approximately 30 billion pounds of inedible animal by-products annually, exporting a market value of US$ 1.5 billion. Benefits of the rendering process include reducing total waste material, and helping the livestock industry stay competitive over vegetable protein ...
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Searching for the best dog to save livestock — and wildlife
Can the right breed help keep both domestic animals and native carnivores alive? This story was co-published with High Country News, a nonprofit media organization that covers the important issues and stories that define the American West. On a bright fall morning in central Washington, a flock of sheep, the off-white of dirty snow, moves across an emerald field of timothy. To the flock’s ...
By Ensia
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We discuss Defra & Red Tractor Assurance
An introduction into the world of farming abbreviations Farming has become increasingly challenging over the past number of years, not only have raw materials seen huge increases in cost but protecting livestock from outbreaks and a range of diseases can also have a massive financial burden on farmers. For many, having onsite incineration is essential for confidence, biosecurity and to obtain ...
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Delivery Site of Organic Fertilizer Granulation Production Equipment
Our company has newly exported a set of organic fertilizer equipment, it can realize the production of organic fertilizer fluidized granulation of chicken manure, cattle manure, sheep manure and other animal manure. The organic fertilizer production equipment is granulated by rotary drum granulator and disc fertilizer granulator, and the granules are processed by dryer cooler equipment. Below is ...
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Exactly how to build an animal feed production line with an outcome of 5t/h?
The RICHI pet poultry fish animal pellet feed production line 5t/h is an automated feed plant that refines different feed resources into feed pellets according to the technological formula, as well as gives complete pellet feed for chicken, livestock as well as poultry, fish as well as shrimp. A collection of processing procedures such as squashing, mixing, powdering as well as cooling are one of ...
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Air emissions of ammonia and methane from livestock operations: Valuation and policy options
The animal husbandry industry is a major emitter of ammonia (NH3), which is a precursor of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) —arguably, the number-one environment-related public health threat facing the nation. The industry is also a major emitter of methane (CH4), which is an important greenhouse gas (GHG). We present an integrated process model of the engineering economics of technologies to ...
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Rising Meat Consumption Takes Big Bite out of Grain Harvest
http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2011/highlights22 World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Meat consumption increased from 44 million tons in 1950 to 284 million tons in 2009, more than doubling annual consumption per person to over 90 pounds. The rise in consumption of milk and eggs is equally dramatic. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption. As the ...
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Disposing of your fallen stock during lambing season
In the UK, lambing season can start anytime from as early as November, all the way to June. Ensuring that this time period runs smoothly is vital as lambing season accounts for a large percentage of turnover. The location, size of herd and many other factors will determine when farmers decide to start preparing for lambing season. During this time, sheep farmers are preparing to care for up to 15 ...
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